Why do people start to be friends? Are these people specifically, and not others? What connects them?
To answer, it seems, simply - the community of characters , interests, subconscious desire not to be lonely - that seems to us the psychology of friendship at first glance. But, for some reason, having looked narrowly, everything turns out the other way around.
What is the psychology of friendship?
In real life, we often encounter completely illogical and contradictory examples, when people with cardinally different psychotypes literally can not live without each other. One is a technician, a bore who sees only rationality in everything and gives cynical evaluations to any phenomenon, the other is a romantic, a disinterested, poetic nature ... but, as they say, "do not spill water". Why? There is an opinion that in this case the main reason for their friendship is precisely their opposite! They both derive from the other exactly what they do not have, and what they might want to possess, but as they say, God did not give ... In this they never in their own lives will not admit, let alone to utter it in the hearing ... They argue with each other for any reason, they can not formulate a single opinion about anything, but they are drawn to mutual communication, well, at least crack!
A typical example of such relations is the friendship of Yersh and Karas from the famous tales of Saltykov-Shchedrin.
The previous example, of course, refers more to the male, so to say "intellectual" friendship, whose psychology is based on the exchange of factual information and its evaluation, ie, minimum of emotions , with a maximum of logic ...
It's the psychology of women's friendship! To hell with logic! To hell with the facts! Emotions and sensations are the alpha and omega of the psychology of women! And the friendship between them is primarily a storm of emotions and nuances of halftones. Women for hours are ready to discuss something important for them, something that a man will never pay attention to in life!
A typical example of such friendship is the Lady pleasant in every respect and the Lady is simply a pleasant one from Gogol's Dead Souls.